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Gercke, Doris
Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working class family that fled to Hamburg in 1949, where she lived until her death.. Not having the means to attend university, she worked as an administrator and was married in 1957 when she was twenty years old. In 1959, after the birth of her second child, she gave up work and...
Literary figures
Albert Campion
Gender: Male
Campion is an English amateur detective with an obscure past. He is an aristocrat, clearly associated with royalty, and he is well respected despite his dull personality. He is arrogant and a bit of a snob in the early books by Margery Allingham, but he soon develops into a multi-faceted, sympathetic person who solves murder using his great understanding of human nature.